Homework 3

Q1: Concisely define/explain the following terms:
(a) Internal chemical potential
(b) External chemical potential
(c) Gibbs factor
(d) Grand partition function
(e) Langmuir Isotherm
(f) Orbital
(g) Fermi-Dirac distribution
(h) Bose-Einstein distribution

Q2: KK 5.2 Molecules in the Earth's atmosphere.

Q3: KK 5.6 Gibbs sum for a two level system.

Q4: KK 5.10 Concentration fluctuations.

Q5: KK 5.12 Ascent of sap in trees.

Q6: KK 6.2 Symmetry of filled and vacant orbitals.

Q7: KK 6.3 Distribution function for double occupancy statistics.